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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B03013	An ordinance and declaration of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament. For the assessing of all such as have not contributed upon the propositions of both Houses of Parliament for raising of money, plate, horse, horsemen, and armes for defense of the King, kingdom, and Parliament, or have not contributed proportionably according to their estates. : With an explanation of the former ordinance declaring that if any person so assessed shall within 6 or 12 dayes ... pay in the money to the treasurers in Guild-Hall, they shall give acquittances for the same ... to be repaied upon the publique faith ... : Likewise an ordinance of both Houses of Parliament for the better provision of victuals and other necessaires for the Army ...	England and Wales.	1642 (1642)	Wing E1769; ESTC R206908	5,129	11

AN ORDINANCE AND DECLARATION Of the LORDS and Commons Assembled in PARLIAMENT For the assessing of all such as have not contributed upon the propositions of both Houses of Parliament for raising of Money Plate Horse Horsemen and Armes for defence of the King Kingdome and Parliament or have not contributed proportionably according to their Estates With an Explanation of the former Ordinance declaring That if any Person so assessed shall within 6 or 12 dayes after notice thereof pay in the Money to the Treasurers in Guild-Hall they shall give acquittances for the same as usuall to be repaied upon the publique Faith But if they refuse to pay the collectors shall have power to distreine their goods imprison their persons and the families of such dis-affected Persons shall no longer remaine within the City of London Likewise an Ordinance of both Houses of Parliament for the better provision of Victuals and other necessaries for the Army and for payment and satisfaction to be made for the same Die Martis 29 Novemb. 1642. ORdered by the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament that these Ordinances bee forthwith Printed and published Iohn Browne Cler. Parl. Decemb 1. Printed for I. Wright in the Old-Bailey 1642. An Ordinance and Declaration Of the Lords and Commons in Parliament WHereas the King seduced by wicked Counsell hath raysed an Army and levyed War against the Parliament and great number of Forces are daily raised under the commands of Papists and other ill-affected persons by Commissions from his Majesty And whereas divers Delinquents are protected from publike Justice by his Majesties Army and sundry outrages and rapines are daily committed by the Souldiers of the said Army who have no respect to the Lawes of God or the Land but burne and plunder the Houses and seize and destroy the persons and goods of divers His Majesties good Subjects And whereas for the maintenance of the said Army divers assessements are made upon severall Counties an● His Majesties Subjects are compelled by the souldiers to pay the same which sa●d army if it should continue wou●d soone ruine and w●ste the whole Kingdome and overthrow Religion Law and Libertie For suppressing of which said army and ill-affected persons there is no probable way under God but by the armv raysed by au●hority of the Parliament which said army so raysed cannot be maintained without great summes of Money yet for raysing such summes by reason of his Majesties withdrawing himselfe from the advice of the Parliament there can be no Act of Parliament passed with his Majesties assent albeit there is great Justice that the said Monies should be raysed The Lords and Commons in Parliament having taken the same into their serious consideration and knowing that the said army so raysed by them hath beene hitherto for the most par● maintained by the voluntary contribution of divers well affected persons who have freely contributed according to their abilities But considering there are divers others within the Cities of London and Westminster and the Suburbes of the same and also within the Borough of Southwarke that have not contributed at all towards the maintenance of the said army or if they have yet not ●nswerable to their Estates who notwithstanding receive benefit and protection by the same army as well as any others and therefore its most just that they should as well as others be charged to contribute to the maintenance thereof Be it therefore Ordained by the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled and by authority thereof That Isaac Pennington Lord Maior of the City of London Sir John Wollaston Knight and Alderman Alderman Towes Alderman Warner Alderman Andrewes Alderman Chambers Alderman Fowkes Sir Thomas Soham Knight and Alderman Samuel Vassell John Venn Morris Thompson and Richard VVarrin Citizens or any foure of them shall hereby have power and authority to nominate and appoynt in every Ward within the City of London six such persons as they or any foure of them shall thinke fit which said six so nominated or any foure of them shall hereby have power to enquire of any that shall remaine or be within the said severall Wards that have not contributed upon the Propositions of both Houses of Parliament concerning the raysing of Money Plate Horse Horsemen and armes for defence of the King and both Houses of Parliament and also of such as are able men that have contributed yet not according to their Estates abilities And the said six persons so nominated or any four of them within their severall and respective wards and limits shall have power to assesse such person or persons as are of ability and have not contributed and also such as have contributed yet not according to their ability to pay such sum or sums of Money according to their Estates as the said Assessors or any foure of them shall think fit and re●sonable so as the same exceed not the twentieth part of their Estates and to nominate and appoint fit persons for the collection thereof And if any person so assessed shall refuse to pay the money assessed upon him it shall be lawfull to and for the said Assessors and Collectors or any of them to leavy the said sum so assessed by way of distresse and sale of the goods of the person so assessed and refusing And if any person so distrained shall make resistance It shall be lawfull to and for the respective Assessors and Collectors or any of them to call to their assistance any the Trained bands of the said City of London or any other his Majesties Subjects who are hereby required to be ayding assisting to the said Assessors and Collectors in the premises And it is hereby further ordained that the respective Burgesses of Westminster and Southwark together with the severall Committees appointed for the subscriptions of Money Plate Horse Horse-men and armes within the said City and Borough shall respectively have power hereby to nominate Sessors for the same City and Borough in such manner as the Lord Major c. hath for the City of London and the said Assessors or any foure of them to name collectors as aforesaid Which said Assessors and Collectors shall have the same power respectively within their respective limits as those to be nominated within the said City of London have hereby limit●ed to them And for the Suburbs of London and Westminster the respective Knights of the Shires where the said Suburbs are shall have hereby the like power to name Assessors and they so named or any foure of them and the Collectors by them to be nominated or any of them within their respective limits shall have the like power respectively as the Assessors and Collectors for London have by vertue of this Ordinance And be it ordained that the sums so assessed and levied as aforesaid shall be paid in at Guild-Hall London to the hands of Sir Iohn Wollastone Knight Iohn VVarner Iohn Towes and Thomas Andrews Aldermen or any two of them And the Assessors